Wave functions of bosonic symmetry protected topological phases

We study the structure of the ground-state wave functions of bosonic symmetry protected topological (SPT) insulators in three space dimensions. We demonstrate that the differences with conventional insulators are captured simply in a dual vortex description. As an example, we show that a previously...

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Main Authors: Xu, Cenke (Author), Todadri, Senthil (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society, 2014-09-03T19:24:21Z.
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